{"id":14653,"date":"2008-02-21T12:39:42","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T17:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/14653.html"},"modified":"2008-02-21T12:39:42","modified_gmt":"2008-02-21T17:39:42","slug":"thursdays-campaign-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/thursdays-campaign-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday&#8217;s Campaign Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Guest Post by <a href=\"www.toosense.net\">dnA<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Y&#8217;all know the drill. Here&#8217;s my best Steve B. impression:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For once, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/02\/20\/AR2008022002267.html\">I agree with David Broder<\/a>, who offers a &#8220;mixed verdict&#8221; from Democratic pollster Peter Hart who is &#8220;endorsing Obama&#8217;s position on caucuses, proportional representation and the Florida-Michigan dispute, and Clinton&#8217;s stance on the superdelegates.&#8221; Both candidates knew the rules going in, and neither should expect them to change now.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Hillary is <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2008\/02\/poll_hillary_up_by_12_in_penns.php\">up by 12 in Pennsylvania<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.tnr.com\/tnr\/blogs\/the_stump\/archive\/2008\/02\/20\/bonus-tnr-angle-on-the-mccain-story.aspx\"> The New Republic had a similar McCain story in the works<\/a> about his relationship to a female lobbyist, which may have &#8220;forced&#8221; the Times hand.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Greg Sargent argues there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/horsesmouth\/2008\/02\/about_that_time.php\">not much meat to the McCain story<\/a> as of yet.<\/li>\n<p><!--more Read more--><\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/2008\/02\/labor_federation_to_endorse_ob.php\">The Change To Win<\/a> labor organization is set to endorse Obama.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Ever wonder how much <a href=\"http:\/\/firstread.msnbc.msn.com\/archive\/2008\/02\/21\/687849.aspx\">Hillary&#8217;s campaign owes to Mark Penn<\/a>?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2008\/02\/january-fundrai.html\">Hilzoy explains<\/a> why Hillary has been raising lots of money but still seems to be struggling financially.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The Romney folks <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/politicalradar\/2008\/02\/romney-camp-lam.html\">seem to be upset<\/a> the McCain story didn&#8217;t come out earlier.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Matthew Yglesias thinks the AP version of the McCain story has less innuendo, <a href=\"http:\/\/matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2008\/02\/a_real_story.php\">but more misconduct<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Clinton says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/story\/2008\/02\/20\/ST2008022002981.html?hpid=topnews\">voters need to &#8220;get real&#8221; <\/a>about Obama.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Contrary to earlier reports, a pro-Hillary 527 <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2008\/02\/prohillary_527_will_disclose_i.php\">will be disclosing its donors<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Speaking of campaigns, <a href=\"http:\/\/undercoverblackman.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/slime-time-at-hillaryclintoncom.html\">Hillary needs to get better blog moderators<\/a> on her website.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for now, at least from me. Hopefully one of the other guest posters will come through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Post by dnA Y&#8217;all know the drill. Here&#8217;s my best Steve B. impression: For once, I agree with David Broder, who offers a &#8220;mixed verdict&#8221; from Democratic pollster Peter Hart who is &#8220;endorsing Obama&#8217;s position on caucuses, proportional representation and the Florida-Michigan dispute, and Clinton&#8217;s stance on the superdelegates.&#8221; Both candidates knew the rules [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}